Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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